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Observations on GA4 – The New Google Analytics

14th September, 2023 By Guy Hoogewerf

There is a lot that is different about Google Analytics and these observations just highlight some interesting areas that we should be looking at to get more out of reporting. All reporting needs to lead to one key outcome – actions. Too often a report is glanced at or even ignored, people and services spend […]

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Privacy Madness

18th August, 2023 By Guy Hoogewerf

Okay, we’re facing a Privacy Madness situation here, I’m going to have a whinge and I am going to complain, there is nothing else for it. Our big tech and our governments are currently way off the mark in protecting us from essentially ourselves, or as they might like to put it nefarious purposes. What’s […]

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AI Fails with the Wow Factor

10th May, 2023 By Guy Hoogewerf

I was working in Hong Kong when a client invited me into their apartment in a place called Discovery Bay (aptly named as it turned out), he was super excited and quite a short man was hopping about saying I had to see something. the enthusiasm was palpable. He knew I has a vague interest […]

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Service and Duty

19th September, 2022 By Guy Hoogewerf

As we remember this week the passing of Queen Elizabeth there’s been a lot of focus on Service, Duty and a certain responsibility to keep one’s word. We do live in a society that all too often appears to be focused on the wrong issues of the day, how much money can we make? how […]

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Google Attacks their Customers

15th June, 2022 By Guy Hoogewerf

What’s going on? I hear you say – nothing wrong with Google at the moment – but is it all as smooth as it seems. Recently, I’ve seen a spate of slow loading pages, bad connections, and software not working. It just feels abnormally high. To make matters a little bit harder to deal with […]

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Password Management Ideas

23rd May, 2022 By Guy Hoogewerf

Will they or won’t they – recently there has been some speculation about doing away with passwords completely, wouldn’t that be nice! Here’s a list of websites that have articles on this: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/the-worlds-biggest-tech-companies-want-to-kill-passwords-on-password-day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faU_d7DqoiY https://www.tweaktown.com/news/86033/apple-google-and-microsoft-are-seeking-to-ditch-passwords/index.html Killing off passwords will eventually come, as things like Biometrics become better. In fact, right now we could say we’re […]

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Google Legacy G-Suite Accounts

20th April, 2022 By Guy Hoogewerf

Be warned if you delete your Google Legacy Gmail/G-Suite/Workspace account – everything is deleted, your entire Google Account will disappear, including access to Google Ads, Analytics, Search Console, Google Maps, Google Photos, basically everything you have ever signed up for via your Google Account. This means also if you have ever signed up for any […]